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Let Freedom Ring

Submitted by drink on Tue, 2006-11-28 10:52
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
— Benjamin Franklin

Impossible!

Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-11-27 12:50
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
— Lord Kelvin

Berkeley in the Sixties

In a time in which we have a tendency to feel disenfranchised and powerless, we would all do well to remember the lessons of the free speech movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s. The motivated students of UCB created a feeling of empowerment in the student body that had important positive repercussions not only for the freedom of speech, but also the equal rights and women's rights movements.

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Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:19
Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison.

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Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:17
I walked on toward Ploughwright, thinking about feces. What a lot we had found out about the prehistoric past from the study of fossilized dung of long-vanished animals. A miraculous thing, really; a recovery from the past from what was carelessly rejected. And in the Middle Ages, how concerned people who lived close to the world of nature were with the feces of animals.
— Robertson Davies

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Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:17
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e., none to speak of.
— Lazarus Long

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Submitted by drink on Mon, 2006-08-21 15:17
Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future; the historian uses his to enrich the past.
— Tom Robbins

JUSTIN BAILEY

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2006-08-21 09:57
Entering the code "JUSTIN BAILEY" into the NES title "Metroid" would strip the protagonist Samus down to her bikini during gameplay, which would normally only be achieved after fighting your way through numerous programatically-generated game worlds.JUSTIN BAILEY
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